The Order

The Order doesn’t deploy any fancy tricks or ingenious twists, in some ways, it’s an old-fashioned throwback. That’s what makes it such a satisfying film. It is exactly what it says it is, and it does it with class and discipline.

The Order is as tense and visceral as it is timely.

It feels like a time capsule but is extremely relevant today.

And yet here, as in Kurzel’s other work, you rarely see actual violence. The horror is what lurks inside the characters, the stifling air of rooms where something is rotten.

Nicolas Hoult is very, very good as this amiable fascist...

There are episodes of muscular, tautly directed action but the overall tone is brooding melancholy, all of it accompanied by a fretful, moaning wind and an eerie score.

...as gritty and dirty as it needs to be...

Director Justin Kurzel mostly avoids comparison to current events — concentrating on the dissonance of violence among the serene surroundings — but the parallels are unavoidable nonetheless.

Thinking about how these events of forty years ago have continued to ripple through the US - and into the White House in 2025 - lends The Order a chilling quality.

Jude Law and Nicholas Hoult deliver fantastic performances in The Order, a film that simultaneously breaks our hearts and fills it with terror over and over again.